The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-21
Gems of Thought.

Our pleasures are in exact proportion to
our duties.7tNorman Macleod.
Prosperity is blessing to the good, but
curse to the eviL7Proverb.
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, the
mightiest among the pure.IRichter.
You can tell how Christian is sanctifed
as you do about disease, by his tongue.
Nothing Is so stupid as to yanqqish; the
real glory is to convince.-lVictor hugo.
When Christ abides in human heart, Hs
is in it as an immortal hope. Culross.
Venture not to the utmost bounds Of even
lawful pleasures; the limits of good and evil
join.
Frnitless Is sorrow for having done aniss,
If it issue not in resolution to do 30 no more
bishop Horne.
In the worst Of times there is more cause
to complain Of an evil heart than OF an eVu
worldIFleming
An Infidels Ouery.-Do you actually b.
lieye in the Biblei Ans-That Is the only
way believe In it.
Most people would succeed In small thtngs
| IL they were not troubled with great ambt-
tions.HLongfellow.
Lots of Christians have motion but no
| progress, like q horse in a treadmill or o
child on a rocking horse.
Ole Bull, the famous musician, once said or
preacher: "He seems to mean all he says,
but he doesn't say much"
Life Is reckoning we cannot make twice
over You cannot mend wrong subtrac-
tion by doing your addition right.
Four elements OF Christian life and expert
ence: 1st, admit I'd, submit; 3rd, commit;
| 4th, transmit. .--(Canon Wilberforce.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and 1t y
| because we have within us the beginning and
the possibility Of t-1[Phillips Brooks.
Sin is to be overcome, not so much by
maintaining a direct opposition to it, as by
cultivating opposite principles.-[Fuller.
You bring up your girls as if they were
meant for sideboard ornaments, and then
complain Of their frivolity.-IJ. Ruskin.
A holy life has a voice. It speaks when
the tongue is silent, and Is either constant
attraction or continual reproof. f.thinton.
IF q man is faithful to truth, truth will be
faithful to him. he need have no fears
| His success is question OF tlmeVfror.
Phelps.
Il is wonderful what strength and bold
ness Of purpose and energy OF will come
from the feeling that we are in the way Oh
duty.tJ. Foster.
There are men in the world who wear a
eirdle Of fret, as trying as any friar's, to
annoy themselves They fancy that in SUCH
experience is to be found the highest fulnll-
ment Of religious duty, and the truest ex-
preston Of this worlds probation.-lReV.
Stephen Il. Tying.
"Well, madam" said John Newton to ono
who was complaining of the imperfections OF
others, "if there were perfect church on
earth, it would cease to be so the minute you
and I entered it.n And that remark still
has a pertinent application for those who, we
fear, won't apply it.
There is nothing we have more reason to
be grateful for than for those things we
shrink from, and vince under, and mourn
over. Hindrances in our way are often helps
in Gods way. Our Saviour sees to 1t that
nothing which he permits his disciples to
encounter shall harm his disciples, so long
as they trust and submit to him In love and
confidence.
Happiness Is not what we are to look for.
Our place is to be true to the best which we
know. to seek that and do that: and II, by
tvirtue Of its own reward" be meant that
the good man cares only to continue good, de-
string nothing more it is true ana nope
saying. But if virtue be valued because ltI
polite, because in its pursuit will be founo
most 9n1OyTlenC anu le"Ooe ouhot AhS SSt ~ -
NOT nob:e any more, and it is turning the
truth of God into a lie.-(Froude.
In praying for the salvation of a single
soul, we pray for more than the whole world
and it's gfories, more than the empire Of the
world. more than all possible inanimate
creations For we pray for one on whom
the good pleasure of the Holy Trinity rests;
for one whom the Father wills to be saved,
for whom the Son was incarnate with whom
the Holy Ghost has pleaded and will plead
Oh, for heart Of fire, for fiery zeal for souls,
that if we can do no more, we may yet plead
with God with burning thoughts, burning
longings, burning desires, for Gods glory In
the salvation of souls!-Dr. Pusey.
The way of salvation has not changed: 1t
is true that men must be born again. They
must repent, and believe, and be converted
Christ declares, Except ye repent, ye shall
all likewise perish" He that believeth not
Shall be damned" Except ye be con-
yerted, and become as little children, ye can
not enter into tho kingdom of heaven"
Surely these declarations are plain enough.
There is no necessity for misunderstanding
them. And they are as trre rs the, .2nn
plain. Amy one who attempts to ro
heaven in any other way will bo disc,
pointed. Without repenta ice toward Coz,
and faith in our Lord Je4 Christ, there IL
no salvation. Have you repentedl haye
YOU taken Christ as your sayiour2